Dr. Alois Haidinger, Commission for Paleography and Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Postgasse 7-9 / 4 / 3, Vienna A-1010, Austria, e-mail: alois.haidinger@oeaw.ac.at
Dr. Victor Karnaukhov, Dr. Nickolai Merzlyakov, Institute for Information Transmission Problem of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 19, B.Karetny per., Moscow, GSP-4, 127994, Russia, e-mail: victor.karnaukhov@iitp.ru
Dr. Elena Oukhanova, State Historical Museum, Department of Manuscripts and Old Books, Krasnaja ploshad 1/2, Moscow, 103012, Russia, e-mail: manuscript@shm.ru
Drs. Gerard van Tienen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, Prins Willem Alexanderhof 5, P.Box 90407, 2509 LK The Hague, The Netherlands, e-mail: Gerard.vanthienen@kb.nl
DI Emanuel Wenger, Commission for Scientific Visualization of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Tech Gate Vienna, Donau-City-Strasse 1, Vienna, A-1220, Austria, e-mail: emanuel.wenger@oeaw.ac.at

Abstracts:

Development problems of distributed databases and application software with multilanguage support are considered. Development of a distributed watermark database with multilanguage support is presented as an example of a particular solution of this task. Exiting databases are mainly supported by general-purpose software tools like Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, dBase, Paradox, etc. Such small databases are as a rule local and support only one language. Due to this reason, the effective joint usage of such databases by another users is hardly restricted. Therefore, development of special software tools for combining such local databases to be used in the frame of a distributed database with multilanguage support is perspective.